In Ballast.
Convoy available at FN convoys
(external link)Sank following collision - See "Final Fate" below.

Some Convoy Voyages:

Lyng is listed in Convoy HN 11 from Norway to the U.K. in Febr.-1940, bound for Grangemouth in ballast. According to Arnold Hague, she returned to Norway at the end of that month with Convoy ON 16, and at the end of March, we find her in Convoy HN 22, bound for Grangemouth in ballast - follow the links for more info; several Norwegian ships took part in all these convoys (escorts' reports are also available for HN 22). From Page 1 of the archive documents, we learn that she left Grangemouth again on Apr. 5, with the intention of returning to Norway, but this did not come to pass (the country was invaded on Apr. 9) - there's a note on the document saying she was detained in Methil Roads.

Apart from a voyage to France in May-1940, she was subsequently in service around the U.K. Her 1941 voyages start on Page 2 and continue on Page 3 and Page 4.

On Jan. 18-1942, she collided near Tyne with the British Charlwood, which sank. According to Page 5 of the archive documents, Lyng had left Blyth the day before, and arrived Gravesend on the 19th.

Page 6, Page 7 and Page 8 show the rest of her voyages, while convoy information for some of them can be found in the Voyage Record above.

Final Fate - 1942:

Lyng sank following a collision, again off Tyne, on Dec. 9-1942, no loss of life. She had departed Southampton in ballast for Tyne on Dec. 7. When she reached Barrow Deep on the 8th she got her sailing orders from the boarding officer, including orders to follow a northbound convoy* (station 60). On the 9th they met some southbound ships, and lit some of the lanterns. According to the captain's report, they had just passed Buoy 20C about 10 minutes earlier when he spotted 3 red lights on Lyng's starboard bow, about 1 mile off. 2 of the ships passed safely, but in spite of evasive maneuvers and signals from Lyng, the 3rd vessel, Greyfriars, ran into her on the port side near No. 1 hatch. Lyng started to list to port, sinking by the bow, so orders were given to get the lifeboats ready. An attempt was made to get into Tyne, but about half an hour after the collision the list increased and her bow was deep in the water. She sank shortly after the crew had abandoned her in the starboard lifeboat, the port boat having been filled with water and lost - Page 8 of the archive documents gives the time as about 23:45. The survivors were picked up by the examination vessel and landed in North Shields.

* Lyng is listed in Convoy FN 886 (external link, incomplete listing) - Please note, however, that the statement here re. collision with Charlwood is incorrect; this collision had taken place on Jan. 18-1942, as stated further up on this page.

A visitor to my website has told me that according to "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" this happened 3.5 miles from N Pier Light, Tynemouth. She has been positively identified.

Other ships by this name: Norway had previously had another steamship named Lyng, built as Ardanrigh in Glasgow in 1883, 1346 gt. Purchased in 1899 by Oscar Hytten & C. E. Semb, Tønsberg and renamed Lyng. Lost in 1913. ("Damp - Dampskipets æra i Vestfold"). Additionally, Ron Young describes the loss of a ship by this name in his "The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast 1918 to 2003" (available from amazon UK). Built in Greenock in 1918 as HMS Kilberry for the Royal Navy (gunboat), renamed Bolam for B. Burletson (Joblin & Hull), Newcastle in 1920, renamed Globus for Johannes Ick, Hamburg in 1922, Lyng for A. Norman Larsen, Horten, Norway in 1925. Ran aground on Filey Brigg on Jan. 30-1928, when serving as mother ship to a herring fleet, voyage Flora-Hull with herring-barrel loops, crew of 14 (Captain Ola Johansen). No casualties. Lyng broke in half, total loss. In 1964 a small ship by this name was delivered to A/S Rederiet Odfjell, Bergen, 499 gt. Later names: Greek Ouranos 1973 (765 gt by then), Panamanian Parati 1974, Tanya V 1982.